Crime & Thrillers

'Gripping and gritty, this book will keep you hooked from the first page to the last' Roberta Kray Liberty Greenwood is back. County lines. Blurred lines. Crossed lines.Things are looking up for Liberty Greenwood. She's brokered a deal with the local...

Following their bloody encounter with the Executioner, Sir Maurice Newbury's assistant Veronica Hobbes is close to death. Desperate to save her life, Newbury and Veronica's sister Amelia board a sleeper train bound for St. Petersburg, in the hope that...

In the first of a thrilling new Victorian detective series, Eliza Mace, on the cusp of adulthood, is battling for her independence. Stuck in a crumbling manor house in the Welsh borders in the 1870s, she is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Will Eisner Comic Industry Award (U.S. Ed. Inter. Material) 2013. Commended for IndieFab awards (Graphic Novel) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781595829313Author Juan...

LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2018'Brilliant . . . twisting the tension tauter with each page' Guardian'The dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns' ObserverDI Costello faces a disturbing child abduction...

With two tours of Iraq under his belt, Sergeant Dave Henley knows what modern war looks like. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This is a battlezone like he's never seen before...

'Packs a killer twist' Prima'Wickedly funny' Sunday Mirror________To mark the twelve days of Christmas, he gives me a gift every day, each more horrible than the last . . .I am missing. Held captive by a blue-eyed stranger.The twelfth day is getting...

Equal parts wartime political intrigue, detective story, psychological thriller and religious mystery, Pastor's debut follows a German army captain and a Chicago priest as they investigate the death of a nun in Nazi-occupied Poland. Stunned by the...

'A stunning debut that kept me guessing until the final, heartbreaking twist' Claire Douglas 'Addictive, twisty and beautifully written' Alice Feeney * * * * * A fast-paced and action-packed thriller, full...

From the author of the thrilling Sunday Times bestseller Dear Amy______________What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born? Sophia's parents lived quiet, ordinary lives. At least she thought so, until she came home to discover...

When waking from your dream means living your nightmare...The last time the dream came, Sam was seven years old; and that was the night her parents were to die.Twenty-five years later, Sam's nightmares are starting to come true once more. Now a...

Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection? Sadler's Wells, 1933. I would kill to dance like her. Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match...

You've lost your memory. A woman has been murdered. Your husband is keeping secrets. How do you know who to trust? Months after being involved in a terrible car crash, Bryn Harper is physically healed but her emotional scars remain raw. She has no memory...

***Pre-order IT HAD TO BE YOU, the new thrilling entry in the bestselling Under Suspicion series, coming Spring 2024***The highly anticipated follow-up to the Queen of Suspense's iconic bestseller, Where Are the Children?.THEY THOUGHT IT COULDN'T HAPPEN...

Stratos Gazis hates being called a contract killer. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that are only mentioned in whispers. That very few can fix. Things that people are willing to pay handsomely to get done, without wanting to know...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787101210Author David McCaddonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The seventh book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter LoveseyLondon, 1889: After Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat became a Victorian bestseller, rowing on the Thames was the great craze of 1889. When an elementary school teacher in training takes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993340017Author Alasdair WhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Greenan PublishingPublisher Greenan Publishing

Now a major television series on All4 and CBC, The Coroner is the first gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series. Death is her living . . . When lawyer Jenny Cooper is appointed Severn Vale...

Secrets, lies, horror, lust, and monsters from the time before time all collide in Fatale: Death Chases Me. In present day, a man meets a woman who he becomes instantly obsessed with, and in the 1950s, this same woman destroys the lives of all those...

The casualties of war aren't only on the battlefield...Coming back from war is never easy, as Sergeant Dave Henley's platoon discovers all too quickly when they return from Afghanistan. Home can be an equally searing battlefield. When they are summoned...

This authoritative Handbook provides a clear and detailed introduction to cyber crime, offering you an effective operational guide to the complexities and challenges of investigating cyber-related crimes. Written by a team of cyber crime experts,...

With the framework of her own world beginning to crack, Merrily must venture into areas of mystery and menace; the secrets of the border's pagan past...'Ancient history, violent deaths, feuds, intrigues and murder. A most original sleuth.' - The...

What is the Third Secret? It is rumoured to be a prediction so shocking that it has been locked away for over eighty years. Could this be what is drawing Pope Clement XV to the Vatican archive, night after sleepless night? When Father Colin Michener is...

What would you do if you were suddenly reminded of something you witnessed as a young child, but had only just realised the terrible significance of what you saw? When Cerys Morgan, a beautiful young student, vanished from a crowded beach in Cornwall...

After his unexpected journey into the land of the fey, Ethan Chase just wants to get back to his normal life with his girlfriend Kenzie. But when your sister is one of the most powerful faeries in the Nevernever, 'normal' simply isn't an...

'Gripping and heartbreaking' Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request'Dark and addictive' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things'So emotionally true' Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic series*******************'You're stuck there, aren't...

The county of Essex has rolling arable farmland, Epping Forest, sleepy villages, busy market towns and secluded backwaters - a wide variety of settings for murder. This selection of crimes uncovers not only famous cases, but also previously unpublished...

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE 2024 FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL In the crooked streets of the boomtown, the rule of law is powerless... Police captain Delia Mariola is struggling to drive predatory drug dealers from the American rust belt town of Baxter,...

The death of a squatter is not all it seems...Ann Granger introduces the unemployed and soon-to-be-homeless amateur sleuth Fran Varady in the first of this riveting crime series. The perfect read for fans of Edward Marston and LJ Ross. 'It looks as if...

'Terrifically fun and explosively propulsive' Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan XFor years, two sisters have vied for the turf of their dead crime boss father. Across the streets of Guatemala City, bodies have piled up; the US Drug Enforcement Agency,...

'A psychological thriller of superior style and plotting. At once compelling and intriguing, it is also entirely unpredictable. I loved this twisty head spinning thriller in which the pace never flags for a second. Riveting!' LIZ NUGENTMY PATIENT'S JUST...

When strangers take part in a series of group suicides, everything suggests that a cult is to blame. How do you stop a cult when nobody knows they are a member? ***Telegraph Book of the Year*** ***Longlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award*** ...

From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P.I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society's most downtrodden.Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime...

From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickWhen British Intelligence asks Michael Holly, a mechanical engineer, to run an errand for them in the Soviet Union, the consequences of capture are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250312303Author John GlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

When you play a double game, if you lose... you die.Tasked by General Napoleon Bonaparte with effecting a perilous entry into the fortress convent of Valletta, Lieutenant Vanderville sides with a renegade Maltese desperate to end the oppressive rule of...

From the bestselling author of A Killer's Wife, Victor Methos's acclaimed Desert Plains series continues with the saga of two brilliant defense attorneys and a client whose confession may not be what it seems. Two couples cut to bits near a canyon...

'A tense, twisty, addictive read' JO SPAIN'Nail-bitingly tense...leaves you gasping for breath' SARAH PEARSEThe waves are to die for. It's a paradise they'd kill to keep.There's a darkness inside all of us and The Bay has a way of bringing it out...

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crimes prosecutor, is brought into what promises to be a messy case. Gemma Dogen was found in her own office in a New York hospital sexually assaulted, soaked in her own blood and considered likely to die before she...